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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #38958 Short B12 deficiency
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Right. So, in terms of supplements other than vitamin D, which is not really a vitamin because you're meant to make it in your skin. So, you're not meant to need to eat it, which is the defination of a vitamin. As you get over past the age of about 70, you don't make it very well even if you are out in the sun. So, vitamin D is something that many-many older people need, regardless of sun exposure, after the age of 70, and that is the one supplement that we almost always as geriatricians look to see if people need, and and need to supplement. The other vitamin that is some which is a vitamin which is sometimes deficient because of ageing, is vitamin B12, because vitamin B12 is bound to animal protein and in order to cleave it from the protein and absorb it, you actually have to have acid in your stomach. So as you get older, you have a condition often called achlorhydria, where you don't actually make enough acid.

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